Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

William Shakespeare was an English poet and play writer. William was son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford upon Avon. At the age of 18, he married  26 year old Anne Hathaway, with who he had three children: Susanna, and twins  son Hamnet and  daughter Judith. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried.  He began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a play company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Shakespeare divided his time between London and Stratford during his career. In 1596, the year before he bought New Place as his family home in Stratford, Shakespeare was living in the parish of St. Helen's. He moved across the river to Southwark by 1599, the year his company built the Globe Theatre there.

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's play company, the Lord Chamberlain's. The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from another theatre knocked down. It was roughly completed by the summer of 1599. On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, setting the wood and thatch on fire. It was rebuilt the next year. Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was knocked down in 1644.